REFRACTED REALITY

[killerkouhai]

15 maps of gothic, abstract colorful goodness in the making.

 

Joining me are:
- @CyanoBlugron
- @Decay
- @leodoom85
- @Pooh
- @Xyzzy01

- UltraViolence

 

RELEASE THREAD HERE:

 

Edited April 19, 2020 by killerkouhai
update

[Walter confetti]

looks amazing for a first effort map! downloading

[StormCatcher.77]

Looks pretty good! I'll try this in near time.

[Percival232]

NEW TO MAPPING? MY BOI IM NEW AND NONE OF MINE LOOKS AS IMPRESSIVE

Seriously Though this looks cool as shit. Purple isnt used enough in Doom maps. Its such an a e s t h e t i c

[Dragonfly]

Just throwing out my seal of approval (is that a thing? :s).

 

Tested this on-stream a week or two back and it was pretty solid. Very, very impressive for a new mapper, that's for sure.

[Bauul]

Loving the effective use of Fireblu! I'll definitely give this a try, the atmosphere looks great from the screens!

 

The colors in this shot are just lovely:

 

 

Edited November 24, 2018 by Bauul
My "seal of approval" joke was the main image shown on any preview of this thread, which while funny, didn't really do justice to the screenshots here, so I've swapped it out to try to change the preview image.

[killerkouhai]

UPDATE!: I've begun working on another level, working with more of an indigo color scheme this time instead of purple/fireblu

 

Here are some bad screenshots for you guys:

 

Edited May 12, 2019 by killerkouhai
removed dead link

[Pegleg]

15 hours ago, Bauul said:

Should this become a thing? Or is it already?

 

@killerkouhai

Nice work! I like the look of the levels and the concept of them being lost in the void. Keep it up!

 

By the way, where did you get the background?

[killerkouhai]

8 hours ago, Pegleg said:Nice work! I like the look of the levels and the concept of them being lost in the void. Keep it up!

 

By the way, where did you get the background?

I found the loose PNG's (the purple in the first post) on the ZDoom Forums custom textures thread, posted by abbuw (will be credited accordingly)

I had to align them and do the GLdefs myself, but it wasn't too hard, then I did a bunch of recolors :)

[killerkouhai]

More progress peeps :D

[MFG38]

Those are some sweet-looking screenshots. I'll make a note of giving this a spin later.

 

On another note, I'd be happy to contribute a map to this. Got a kindling of an idea that I sort of want to put into good use. c:

[Test Tickle]

For someone relatively new to mapping, this looks great.

I'll download this when I have time.

[killerkouhai]

8 hours ago, MFG38 said:

On another note, I'd be happy to contribute a map to this. Got a kindling of an idea that I sort of want to put into good use. c:

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That's awesome dude! I'd love that! Add me on discord and we can talk more about it: killerkouhai#5383

[MFG38]

11 minutes ago, killerkouhai said:

That's awesome dude! I'd love that! Add me on discord and we can talk more about it: killerkouhai#5383

 

Sure thing!

[killerkouhai]

Finally able to replace the crystal midtexts with sprites! Here's the results:

[Relinquished]

I have to say, these screenshots look great! I've been on hiatus for a bit while doing a 6 month college course, but I'm glad to see new mappers are coming in with great ideas! I love the aesthetic you've gone for, and I can't wait to see a playable version.

How many maps are you aiming to complete for this project? 

[leodoom85]

2 hours ago, Relinquished said:

I have to say, these screenshots look great! I've been on hiatus for a bit while doing a 6 month college course, but I'm glad to see new mappers are coming in with great ideas! I love the aesthetic you've gone for, and I can't wait to see a playable version.

How many maps are you aiming to complete for this project? 

She said aprox. 10 maps

[killerkouhai]

Yep, aiming for 10 :)

 

Edited May 12, 2019 by killerkouhai

[killerkouhai]

Back again with another update!

 

Got some other mappers working with me on this now :D
- Leodoom85

- MFG38

- General Roasterock

 

We also now have a discord ! Feel free to join, share your thoughts/ideas and keep up with our progress as it happens.

 

Purple theme by me, Yellow theme by Leodoom85.

More shots from the others coming soon :)

Edited July 20, 2018 by killerkouhai

[killerkouhai]

More progress!

[killerkouhai]

Also put together a brief concept for another map:

[LuciferSam86]

Really impressive screenshots . I cannot wait to play those levels.

[killerkouhai]

Alright folks, we've been making lots of progress with this :D

Here is a demo of a map by @leodoom85 , it's wicked, check it out

 

And here are some screenies of the 2nd last map for the pack:

[killerkouhai]

Big thanks to my buddy Ultraviolence for doing a playthrough video of the demo we released on the projects discord. By no means will the maps be exactly the same as shown in the video in the full release.

 

Meanwhile, more progress is being made, though I am sad to announce we've lost a mapper to school. Remember folks, life comes first. Stay in school.

Here are some more screenies to hold your interest (hopefully)

[SixShooter]

looks interesting. I'll keep an eye on this one.

[Pirx]

On 7/11/2018 at 12:48 AM, killerkouhai said:

Hey guys! I'm relatively new to Doom mapping, I only started in May 2017. I'm working on a small project right now, with the theme being gothic/hellish outposts floating in space/ some sort of void realm. Right now I'm using INFINITE VOID as a placeholder since I hope to come up with a name that's more creative and unique to the theme.

I'm aiming for ~10 maps, perhaps more if anyone is interested in collaborating, which I am fully open to. This will be for GZDoom and will require the latest version since I plan on taking full advantage of the various effects that it supports.

 

One map is finished playable, although I'm in the still in the process of touching it up, changing some things around and bug fixing.
-requires the latest build of GZDoom
-requires jumping (freelook encouraged)
-Hardware rendering (OpenGL) required

-Enabling dynamic lights heavily suggested

-Uses DOOM2.wad

 

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ooUCZEnNzX9ABWrZk77mMMHzshGicdjC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool stuff,  following thus now.

[Bridgeburner56]

Nice work! Consider me bubbling with anticipation

[leodoom85]

1 hour ago, Bridgeburner56 said:

Nice work! Consider me bubbling with anticipation

Just wait for more maps. The demo that me and the other dude showed up are just a bit of expectations that we want to keep it that way.

[Kristian Nebula]

Looking really good! Impressive work!

[killerkouhai]